Classics of political philosophy
Classic Texts in Political Philosophy
- (This list is more or less chronological)
- The Republic by Plato
- The Laws by Plato
- Gorgias by Plato
- Phaedrus by Plato
- The Phaedo by Plato
- The Apology of Socrates by Plato
- Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians by Xenophon
- History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
- The Politics by Aristotle
- Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
- Defensor pacis by Marsilius of Padua
- The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon
- Novum Organon by Francis Bacon
- The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
- Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Discourses on Livy by Niccolò Machiavelli
- Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- Nonsense on Stilts by Jeremy Bentham
- On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
- The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
- Utopia by Thomas More
- Essays Moral Political and Literary by David Hume
- The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- The First and Second Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Political Writings by Immanuel Kant
- The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
- Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
- On the Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Selected Writings by Karl Marx
- Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
- Being and Time by Martin Heidegger